The famous Pigna plaza in Rome is a composition of objects from different time periods and countries, some centuries apart. The pinecone, and likely the peacocks judging by the old picture (although they seemed to have earlier sources before that), came from the previous vatican basilica, where it hold a prominent place as a fountain before entering the basilica, for travellers to wash themselves before entering, not unlike todays mosques. The pinecone itself is a fountain.
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Image: installation with bronze pine-cone in the atrium of Old St Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Drawing by Cronaca
Image: pianta di Roma di Etienne Du Perac (1577), particolare del Vaticano.
In its form its hold the mathematics of creation, Phi and the Fibonacci sequence, like the great Egyptian pyramid and some others slope or, Greek temples and churches, which have it also encoded in their construction.
Image: Explanation how Phi is encoded in a pinecone
Source: https://slideplayer.com/slide/8500843/
The lions and the peacocks, the pinecone, “the fruit of the evergreen pine” makes up the tree of life, a metaphor for the rotating skies and time itself, where creation itself, is its fruit. The arrangement of these objects into a new composition, was not random.
Image: Pigna fountain, Vatican
Source: https://www.arrivalguides.com/en/Travelguide/Rimini/doandsee/pigna-fountain-17468
Its intend can be clearly seen when we are putting these images together.
Image: Byzantine tree of life motive
As one now can clearly see, the Pigna fountain is an arranged Byzantine “tree of life”, metaphor for the rotating skies, combies earths lions with the skies birds(usually eagles) that together form the gryphon. That symbolism of the gryphon can be seen on the old basilica picture above, similar to the myceanen lions gate of two lions flanking the pillar of heaven but more like the delphi sarcophagus. The pillar of heaven, the trunk of the tree of life.
Image: Delphi sarcophagus, iconography of gryphons flanking the pillar of heaven, the fire the sun.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:07Delphi_Sarkophag.jpg
In its center, the thunder skygod bringing rain as a waterfeature in its center. Also the 4 pillars, symbolizing the 4 seasons.
It is noteworthy that “the rotating skies” or milkyway had a few metaphors. Being a tree (“canopy with fruit”), the sea, a grape vine, a mountain (Meru). There is a reason the great pyramid was a 4 sides pyramid perfectly aligned to the cardinal directions, that there where 4 sons of Horus (Imsety, Duamutef, Hapi, Qebehsenuef ) or 4 godesses (Isis, Serket, Neith, Nepthys) linked to the cardinal directions, even placed as such in King Tuts Shrine. They are also seen on the Denderra zodiac.
There is 1 similar pinecone fountain, the Aachen cathedral one, watering holes on the tips of the leaves and on the 4 corners in figures that are now damaged said to represent the personified rivers, but I am not 100% sure of that as it could be the 4 seasons also,
Image:s Aachen Cathedral pinecone. Bronze, height 91 cm, diameter in center 68 cm (35.8 x 26.8 inches), around 800ad or 1000ad. Base with inscription tenth century. Probably part of a fountain in the cathedral atrium, set on a column next to the door by the late 15th c.taken to Paris 1794, returned to Aachen 1815, placed in vestibule 1893
inscription: “Water gives to this world whatever they bring to its growth; the fertile Euphrates, the Tigris fast as an arrow. The maker Udelrich the pious abbot sings thanks.” Source of Images: https://www.kornbluthphoto.com/AachenPinecone.html
One can argue that symbolism of the pinecone, has fallen out of fashion, remembering previous symbolism of Dyon-ISUS thyrsus staff.
Image: Staff of DyonISUS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrsus
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